feedback Tim Klein was [CLUE-Tech] removing spaces from filenames?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:35:06 -0700
Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:

> I needed to change the search line to:
> $newfile =~ s/$out_pat/$replace_pat/g;
> 
> To get more than 1 space in the name ...
> 
> (wish it could recurse)

The advantage of writing the script (any, not just Perl) as a filter (read
stdin, write stdout) is that it becomes easier to have it recurse or not
(I think). I haven't tested my script with the output of find -depth,
since I haven't needed to do a recursive rename. (Yeah, you could write
your script to do option processing.)

Also, FWIW, I wrote mine only as a half-filter coz the filenames I was
encountering were just too strange to reliably pipe stdout though a shell.
I started out doing that, cuz it was great to be able to see the results
of the substitutions before performing them. But I encountered cases where
" enclosing didn't work, or ' enclosing didn't work. Even ran across files
whose names started with a hyphen.

All this stuff is a great testament to the "there's more than one way to
do it" nature of *nix.

jed
-- 
We're frogs who are getting boiled in a pot full of single-character
morphemes, and we don't notice. - Larry Wall; Perl6, Apocalypse 5